They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.
AGNES DE MILLEWhen I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they’re afraid that they’ll be forgotten. And in America they’re quite right. They will be.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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But all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage.
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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
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